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wow, you guys are good. Crash test was one. The shifter was also a mid year change with a few other things. I 'd have to look up my files but at the time, there were some upgrades that made me look for the mid year.
 
@ yrwei52, where are you?
Sorry, running around the town trying to find some nice Texas Rangers World Series Champions memorabilia! I was shocked to see the prices of these items. A simple T-shirt now is $50, not $5 ~ $10 on a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Champions T-shirt in 1990’s!
 
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Sorry, running around the town trying to find some nice Texas Rangers World Series Champions memorabilia! I was shocked to see the prices of these items. A simple T-shirt now is $50, not $5 ~ $10 on a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl T-shirt in 1990’s!
LOL. We survived without you, but just barely:rolleyes:. Hope you scored a good deal if there were any.
 
Yes there was. They improved the front offset crash safety for one thing. Not sure if there were any other changes, but I don't recall any. I was bummed, 'cos the 2014.5 came out a coupla months after we bought our 2014 CX-5 :(
It seems like CX-5s built after Oct 2013 got the better crash safety rating. But the same IIHS website says those built before Nov 2013 received inferior ratings. :unsure:
 
Looking at one some of my old posts small overlap change at 11/2013 but link to info is broken now in post.

 
Looking at one some of my old posts small overlap change at 11/2013 but link to info is broken now in post.

The reason why the 2016 CX-5 crash test safety ratings went down and the Front Passenger's safety rating is a 3 and the overall rating is a 4 mainly is because:



Passenger side airbag reprogramming is a Special Service Program (SSP) A6 which is supposed to prevent fabric tear of the passenger front air bag during deployment. I also suspect this has something to do with 2016 CX-5's 3-star rating on passenger side for NHTSA Frontal Barrier Crash Test dropped from 5 stars of previous MY.

JD power rating for mazda cx5 is LOW !!!!!

That’s why I’ve been saying the 2016.5 CX-5 is the best as most of these issues on 2016 CX-5 had been fixed on 2016.5 CX-5.
 
You still get a chance at my oil leaks though :)


2013-2016 CX-5 with VINS lower than JM3KE******838638 (produced before July 4, 2016)


Granted... it's not worth fixing on that timing cover... just keep it clean every couple oil changes.

I think that rear diff gives me the greatest long term concern. There have been leak and crack issues that have continued over the years.
 
Just some 250-300k mile examples

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‘14 CX-5 FWD w/365,061 miles

’14 CX-5 GT AWD w/254k miles

’15 w/279k

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